The OWS representative Neal met has agreed to an on-air interview with Will, but Will has his mind made up as to how he’s going to treat her before she steps onto the set, it seems. He messes with her, first, by seeming to address her as he speaks to a producer over his microphone; within moments of the interview beginning, it’s clear Will is playing some sort of game. He refers to her as “one of the leaders” of Occupy Wall Street, because one of the classic moves great journalists do is to purposefully and knowingly misrepresent their interview subjects on-air. Probably they do, some of them! But isn’t Will supposed to be dedicated to the truth in all its particulars?

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However, the film, which debuts tonight on World Channel as part of its America ReFramed series, is not a celebration of the benefits of a broad education, nor is it a call for more inclusiveness of minority students into the private school system. “The Prep School Negro” is actually a much more personal, and thereby poignant examination of the distance his schooling put between Lee, his sister, and their mother. While his family was proud of him, they were increasingly unable to relate to him and vice versa. The alienation and resentment that bubbled up are disturbing to watch. Through an exploration of his own travails, and some interface with current prep school attendees, Lee illustrates how an underprivileged student in one of these schools can find himself straddling two different worlds and the strains that can put on a young person’s psyche.

“I think that all of us are aware that anything that has happened before in the history of this great country can, in fact, happen again,” said Rep. James Clyburn (S.C.), the third-ranking House Democrat and prominent member of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC).